The Talos Principle

Nothing prepared me for The Talos Principle. My science professors didn't, my church pastors didn't, my buddies subscribed to High Times didn't. So I was flying blind. That's how I prefer it, actually. All I had to go on was a couple time-bent...

When you enjoy a game as much as I enjoyed The Talos Principle ( original review ), the requirements for an enjoyable expansion can be as simple as “be more of that”. Road to Gehenna passes that test with ease, providing more puzzles and an interesting...

While The Road to Gehenna may not be as expansive as its parent game, it provides exactly the kind of devious challenges its fans are wanting more of. The difficulty starts at the same level The Talos Principle had in the latter half of the game and doesn’t let up, although it doesn’t get much harder either.

Players who found The Talos Principle too easy will not feel the same regarding The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna.Continuing the story of The Talos Principle, this sequel DLC again places Uriel, the player-controller android, alongside Elolhim, the...

The Talos Principle is an intelligent first-person puzzle game whose spatial riddles are challenging, but they don't make the player feel dumb (too often). Even its dense, philosophical narrative and commentary on the nature of artificial life isn't designed to make players question their own mental capacities – instead, The Talos Principle invites players to look at the world, and their own minds, just a little differently.

Philosophical questions raised throughout the game are thought-provoking and troubling.Further, if we accept that the human brain is an organic machine, then how can we judge morality? After all, every human is responding to stimuli according to the...

Not content with merely being a fairly impressive piece of writing and first-person puzzle design, The Talos Principle sets out to expand your horizons, and will most likely succeed. Croteam's foray into territory beyond absurd, large-scale first-person...

The Talos Principle joins an unlikely pair of creative forces in a way that succeeds far beyond my expectations. It's a smart game that doesn't punish you for it, a puzzle game that allows a sense of creativity. And while it isn't the most upbeat thing out there, there's a vein of hope that runs through it — and ties it all together neatly at the end.

It serves as a fantastic representation of the human condition, complete with curiosity, speculation, wonder, fear, and a yearning to know the unknowable. But most importantly, it nails the role that isolation plays in the human condition. Because of all we don't know, because of how seemingly out of control we all are in the cosmic sense, we feel alone. But, in reality, we're alone together.

Developer: Croteam Publisher: Devolver Digital Platform: PC The Talos Principle is quite the departure for developers Croteam, whose list of previous releases almost entirely involve the words "Sam" and "Serious." It's a firstperson puzzler that...

The fact that everything plays out so smoothly here suggests that the finished product is extremely close to the designers' original vision for the project, a compliment that certainly can't be levelled at all games. This clarity of creation brings us a...

The Talos Principle is a meaty puzzle experience that will take you over a dozen hours to complete and then leave you chewing on some of life’s greatest mysteries for weeks. You might not be able to solve the nature of humanity, but the rest of this game’s puzzles will leave you feeling brilliant enough to try.